[openbeos] Re: Messages Translation ?

about the only thing keeping many many hebrew users from israel,
from converting from windows to other OSes is hebrew support. (ok, drivers too)
bidi support, so we can input text from right to left, glyph support.
all my experiments failed no matter what font i tried to replace the default one on beos, nothing worked and all i could see was rectangles.
(maybe the truetype font engine was not so complete)
still, the input is a far greater problem. maybe we need to change the way input boxes work? maybe BView in general?
i dont know what it takes and don't know how freetype2 in R2 would change that, but it's deffinately something that is holding back ALOT of users.
today with openoffice, if only we had a way to see/type our native language, we would not be dependent on windows no more.

hotplasma@xxxxxxxx wrote:
I do know a thing or too about languages, Most latin based languages would be the easiest to do
b/c you dont need any special characters, except maybe an accent mark here and there. But with russian that is a different ball park, the alphabete is a bit different but should be easily done.
Now the phoenician based languages e.g. arabic and hebrew those are the tough ones b/c of the alphabete so someone would need to know the workings of one or the other for it to be localized.
But other than the languages that are not roman based then you shouldnt run into any problems. So it can be done it would just take some time finding the people who know how the languages work
and if needed to design a font for the different script styles like with the far-east languages (japanese, chinese, korean, and thai if there are more please forgive me.) But yes it can be done.

Mark




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